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When New York City Was a Wiretapper’s Dream

Cars That Think

Subscribers whose phones were tapped at the time of the raid included a range of New York commercial interests, with assets both large and small: a modeling agency and an insurance company; an art gallery and a lead mining company; and perhaps most sensationally, two publicly traded pharmaceutical corporations with competing patent interests.

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Why N.Y.C. Hotel Rooms Are So Expensive Right Now

Baua Electric

In late 2022, as thousands of migrants began to arrive in New York City, city officials scrambled to find places to house them. Dozens of hotels, from once-grand facilities to more modest establishments, closed to tourists and began exclusively sheltering migrants, striking multimillion-dollar deals with the city.

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IEA report finds “avoid, shift and improve” policies for urban transport could deliver up to $70T in savings through 2050

Green Car Congress

Sprawling cities tend to have low densities and high urban and suburban sprawl. They often have weakly-defined urban cores with commercial and business hubs spread intermittently throughout the urban and metropolitan areas. Target policies include regulations that discourage or penalize sprawling development (e.g.

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The Soviet-Era, Z80-based Galaksija Dared to Be Different

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During its brief heyday, thousands were built, leading to commercially assembled Galaksijas finding their way into homes and schools across the country. This helped greatly in keeping its component costs within the legal import limit, although the additional computing overhead did slow the Galaksija down significantly.

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Who Really Invented the Rechargeable Lithium-Ion Battery?

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In contrast, Whittingham’s new chemistry produced an astonishing 2.4 In the winter of 1973, corporate managers summoned Whittingham to the company’s New York City offices to appear before a subcommittee of the Exxon board. “I Here, the story of the lithium-ion battery’s journey to commercialization gets hazy.

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How the Graphical User Interface Was Invented

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The Mac’s success during the 1980s spurred Apple Computer to pursue legal action over ownership of many features of the graphical user interface. Suits now being litigated could assign those innovations not to the designers and their companies, but to those who first filed for legal protection on them. Santa Monica, Calif.,

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How Ted Hoff Invented the First Microprocessor

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Teaming up with Stanley Mazor and Federico Faggin, he created the first commercial microprocessor, the Intel 4004. Currently, though history traces today’s microprocessor back to Hoff, Mazor, and Faggin, the legal rights to the invention belong to Hyatt. and New York City. While a research manager at Intel Corp.,

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